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Rel200 Ch.8 (Judiasm
Question | Answer |
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Jewish history begins with stories recounted in the Hebrew Bible, or ... | Tanakh. |
For thirty days before Rosh Hashanah, each morning synagogue service begins with ... | the blowing of the shofar. |
Non-Jewish peoples may be referred to as ... | Gentiles. |
While under oppressive rule, some Jews believed their oppression would end when a(n)... | Messiah came to establish a peaceful reign. |
A Jewish meeting place is called a ... | synagogue. |
The Pentateuch refers to the ... | five books of Moses. |
The covenant is a ... | contract between God and God’s people. |
If you were to attend temple on Friday night and meet a gay couple that had been married in the synagogue the previous week, you would most likely in a synagogue with a ... | Reconstructionist and Reform congregation. |
The Jewish holy day of atonement and cleansing is called... | Yom Kippur. |
Modern Israel became an independent Jewish state in what year? | 1948 |
About how many European Jews were killed by Germany’s Nazi leadership in the Holocaust? | six million |
The Sabbath begins at sunset on ... | Friday night. |
When eight years old, to honor the seal of God’s commandment to Abraham, boys are circumcised in the ritual ceremony known as... | brit milah. |
The prayer that Jews pray when rising up and going to sleep is also to be placed at their doorposts and placed in a case after being written on a piece of paper known as a ... | mezuzah. |
In 1947, there was an important archeological discovery made by a bedouin in the desert that finding ancient scrolls of the Hebrew Bible stored in clay jars now known as the... | Dead Sea Scrolls. |
The two central stories in the Hebrew Bible or pillars upon which all of the other stories in the Hebrew Bible rest are... | Creation and Exodus. |
Dr. Mertz spoke about the story of Creation found in the Book of Genesis and said that the point of that story is ... | radical equality. |
The story about Moses’ encounter with God who asks him to go into Egypt to ask Pharaoh to let God’s people go is found in the Book of ... | Exodus. |
When this story is retold Jews believe that they are taking part the in events of long ago. This event then and a major feast now celebrated by Jewish people is known as the... | Passover. |
The point of this second major story in the Jewish scriptures is God’s desire that all humans have... | freedom. |